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Bailey and Browning had hoped to wrap up their cases by week's end, but on Thursday the defendant came down with the flu. Wearing a surgical mask and running a slight fever (100.2° F.), she was taken for tests to a U.S. Public Health Service hospital. Judge Oliver J. Carter has told the weary jury members he hopes they will be able to withdraw into seclusion this weekend to pass judgment on Patty Hearst...
This is history to make the gods weep, perhaps with laughter. Three incompatible cultures met late in the 18th century, when English explorers began to poke into the great fever swamp of western Africa that is now Nigeria. Arab traders had arrived 300 years earlier, recommending their religion and bringing news that a minor local industry, slave raiding, could be the basis of a thriving export trade. The Britons advocated their own faith. They also urged the unwelcome view that slavery was immoral. It interfered with the manpower needed for the palm-oil trade...
Geographical mysteries were thus solved, but the region's weakened and debased societies and its fever-ridden travelers remained baffling to each other. In 1854 a German Lutheran explorer named Heinrich Earth was detained in Timbuctoo for eight months before rival political factions agreed to release him. An Arab officer in favor of Earth's execution spoke disapprovingly of Christians: "They sit like women in the bottom of their steamboats and do nothing but eat raw eggs...
Years of Frustration. The fever of protest in Vitoria had been building for two months. Like workers all across Spain, the city's laborers gave vent to years of frustration after Franco's death. With the clergy's blessing, striking workers met in illegal assembly in the city's churches to air their demands for higher wages and their conviction that Madrid must yield more authority to local governments...
Contrary to rumors that surfaced last weekend, spring has not arrived yet and the seedings for the ECAC hockey tournament are far from locked up. The Dartmouth hockey team realized this in Hanover, New Hampshire, where eight inches of snow fell yesterday, but it seems as if spring fever has already taken hold in Cambridge...